How to use slscart as a CMS

slscart has content management system capabilities.

• Allows clients to add unlimited pages
• Allows clients to make changes to existing pages
• Provides a WYSIWYG web editor for the page system

CMS Features

These are activated in the storeadmin under Extras

articles

blog - start your own blog

blog gallery - this is a nice blog feature.

event calendar - post upcoming events on a calendar

faq - generate a frequently asked questions page

guest book - guest book for visitors to sign in

knowledgebase

photo gallery - a nice place to show off pictures

web links - your favtorite places to visit on the web

These are under Web Site

pages

These are under Administration

custom menus

slideshow

social media links

These are under Administration > Extras

alert banner - generate an alert banner

These are under Administration > Site Settings

site message - send a message to every page on the site

Miscellaneous

linked pages - set up some pages to read like a book

multiple templates - slscart allows multiple templates for one site. One page can use a particular template and another page can use a different one.

Setup

The basic setup turns off features associated with shopping and the shopping cart.

1. (Pages > Catalog) Turn off shopping cart link. Note that Catalog cannot be deactivated.

2. (Catalog setup) Turn off

• new items link
• featured link
• all item link
• sale link

3. (Site Extras) Deactivate the following as these are related to the shopping cart

• affiliates
• gift certificates
• gift registry
• price search
• wholesale
• wishlist

Suggestions

1. Use %SEARCH_SITE% instead of %SEARCH_CATALOG% in the template.

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